Use Your USB Stick As a Key to Start Your PC

This can be achieved by using a regular USB/pen/thumb drive (whatever you call it). The hack would be more than enough to keep even your curious geeky computer friends from booting into the system. That said, it is by no means foolproof (which security measure is? ) so you might not want to bet your life on it.

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Wine64 hello world app runs!

I can finally report success on the first ever win64 program running on wine. The program was a textbook classic, but to make it work gcc had to be changed a lot.

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Best Ever 65 mooTools Plugins and Demos

Below are the Best Ever 65 mooTools Plugins and Demos, is it Better than jQuery?Quite, possibly.

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How to tweak and fine-tune Time Machine

It's a good idea to find out more about how Time Machine ticks so that you can fine-tune it to your exact requirements. You might, for instance, want to change the interval between backups, or perhaps exclude certain folders from being backed up in the first place.

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Resetting Your Styles with CSS Reset

This is the first part of a series of articles that will discuss a particular CSS best practice or tip. I’ll be covering a mixture of topics that deals with CSS best practices, performance optimization, and tips and tricks to improve your workflow.

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[Geek Review] Linux Mint: A better Ubuntu

Linux Mint, while relatively new, has gained a lot of fans from the linux community, and is now the third most popular on DistroWatch, slowly crunching on openSUSE lead. It brings something a lot of distro have tried: simplicity, functionality, and of course looks. Let’s see what makes Linux Mint fresh and if it’s worth switching from Ubuntu.

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TimeVault simplifies data backup for Ubuntu users.

TimeVault makes saving and recovering data easy through an automatic process. You define directories to include or exclude from the process, and TimeVault takes care of the rest by creating snapshots of your data.

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